Post-Colonial Literature – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 - B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Unit I: 
Raja Rao

Kanthapura

Unit II: 
Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown

Unit III: 
Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Unit IV: 
Amitav Ghosh

The Shadow Lines 

Unit V: 
Wole Soyinka

Death and the King’s Horsemen

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Francis Hutchings : The Illusion of Permanence : British Imperialism in India (Princeton University , 1967)
  • C.L. Innes and L.B. Reinmann (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe ( London , 1979)
  • Gandhi : Homerule
  • Edward Said : Orientalism
  • Frantz Fanon : The Wretched of the Earth
  • Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

 

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